Who can believe NPR is an unbiased radio - assuming there is such athing?
It used to be liberal many years ago but it became National Pentagon Radio during the 1st golf war and has remained conservative ever since. The pro business slant is clear.
People at NPR hate H Zinn.
We need to take back the airwaves with 50% given to non profit AND NON RELIGIOUS organizations with licenses up in 10 years and re-attributed by drawing (same should apply to private licenses 10 years max)

fuck Horowitz, give him equal time, for time shall claim him also.

Fuck both NPR and Horowitz.

Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power."

NPR had already seriously declined between the late '90s and 2003 when I pretty much gave up listening to them on a regular basis. I knew things had gotten bad at NPR but this FAIR report lays out the extent of what is really a national journalistic tragedy. NPR deserves to be boycotted over this.

Nazi Pentagon Radical, indeed.

I stopped listening to NPR when my local station's signal got weaker. I went from listening an average of > 10 hrs/wk to ~0. I miss Click-and-Clack, the Tappet Bros., but that is about it. Like most media, they rarely let a true progressive speak, but use right of center Democrats instead.

Mr. Horowitz is a non entity, but does have his followers, like Beck and other slugs of society.

Howard Zinn is better by far than Horowitz, Beck, Buckley, and all of the NPR crew. He shaped a new society of thinkers and activists that have our country in their hearts and souls because of his "A Peoples History of the United States."

I have a better understanding of my country and what I want out of my country because of men and women like Howard Zinn. His life was one well lived.

No need to take it so seriously. Horowitz has a long record of simply reacting, rather than reasoning, and he was just doing his job.

Have only listened to NPR when it was on in my mother's house. An in-law who is a liberal- baiting Rebulican who listens to Limbaugh has recently been telling me how much he likes NPR.

It's only fair.
Every June 5th, I send "Happy Dead Ronald Reagan Day" emails to everybody I know.

Some thoughts.

First, I will note the irony of a piece of writing, attacking "Horowitz's substance-free attack [which] contributed nothing to an understanding of Zinn's life or work, other than conveying that he's disliked by cranky right-wingers."

- which is itself a content-free attack, contributing nothing to an understanding of either Horowitz or modern conservatism - other than the fact that he's hated by left-wing hacks.

some other ironies about.

Namely, for an organization that seems committed to `fairness and accuracy in reporting' - that is, that newspapers and other news services should live up to their professional credo of fairly covering all aspects of a story - it seems that you, or at least, the author of this `action alert' (whatever that is) should likewise avoid terms such as `crank', other than to describe the device that makes a machine go.

`Crank' in the context used here exists as no acceptable term in any real journalist's style-book, I should think; maybe that speaks to the author's actual status in the profession of journalism.

Second, again in contradiction to the alleged purpose of the organization for which he works, the author of this `action alert' seems to be castigating the NPR for being... fair. That is, for telling folks that not everyone in the world believes that pseudo-historian Zinn was the greatest thing since greatness.

Then, having contradicted the very purpose (again, allegedly) of F-A-I-R, the author castigates American public radio again for not including any left-wing cranks in its coverage of W.F. Buckley's death.

(The majority of the `action' piece is given over to Buckley, whose death occurred, when was it? 2007 or something?)

I wonder though. After Buckley's death, I heard a great deal of symbolic `spitting on graves' on the part of left-wing hacks, maybe even the author of this piece.

But even if not, did the author rush to his word-processor to condemn these cranks? Or is this only reserved for left-wing `historians'?

thanks

Howard Zinn was an apologist hack
Tweet-P-R is a government flack
When it's all over and we're all cinders
Bill Buckley will remain

I know it doesn't rhyme so well.